Word: pepsis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amazing--I had a whole different perspective on the world. My eyes were always out of focus, like I could only see out of one eye most of the time, and I was giddy. I tended to giggle a lot." Ten cups of coffee a day, plus bottles of Pepsi and Dr. Pepper, plus late-night pinball ("to give me a semblance of contact with the real world--It was a diversion of nervous energy"), plus long dinners ("Dinners were a great joy to me because I could actually talk to human beings...
...portions of the documents it requested from the CIA and the State Department were not released, and those released were heavily censored. Furthermore, the division the Church Committee makes between the activities of American corporations and those of the CIA is misleading, since most of the companies involved--ITT, Pepsi-Cola, Anaconda Copper--have a long history of involvement with the CIA, providing cover jobs for agents in return for CIA defense of their interests abroad...
Springsteen was a demon player and won frequently, according to Southside, because "he had no scruples." Nicknamed "the Gut Bomb King" because of his passion for junk food, he would show up for a Monopoly tourney with armfuls of Pepsis and Drake's cakes. Whenever anyone would get hungry and ask for a snack, Springsteen was ready with a deal: one Pepsi, one hotel...
...combination Deli/Sub-shop/Bar-and-Grille, but there wasn't anybody upstairs so I went downstairs to the bar and asked if I could get something to eat. The bartender said everything was closed, even though somebody just got a drink from him. So I went back upstairs and took a sixpack of Pepsi from behind the counter. I hid it in the bushes, went past about five honky marriage chapels and brought some food at a 24-hour supermarket...
Inui, a lover of tradition (he plays the classical three-string samisen), did his utmost to "Japanize" what he had learned. In particular, he worked through the sprawling sales networks of the great Japanese trading houses to lease to manufacturers, shippers and retailers, products as varied as Pepsi bottles, tankers and computers. Now Inui is trying to repay some of his debt of gratitude to U.S.L., of which he became a director in 1973. Next month Orient will open an office in Manhattan to help U.S.L. lease products to other Japanese firms operating...